Two Soldiers Share Birthday Furlough at Doctor Carroll’s Home
Lieutenant Tanlon and Sergeant Farrell visit Dr. Carroll’s house during a three day furlough. They are warmly welcomed by Madeline and Mary Carroll and by Old Doc himself. The twins celebrate turning eighteen with cake, gifts, and a courtship blossoming between Mary and Jack while Scott bonds with Madeline. The men toast future furloughs and return to service with bright hopes.
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Tanlon
Farrell
Carrol
Sims
Scott Hanlon Che
Scott
Sergt
Jolae Farrell
Lute
One Hundred and Seventh Artillery
Old Doe
Jack
Stirs
Mary
Aquila
Madeline
Mary— Thes
Ducky
Hanlon
Madeline Carrell
Murry
Sergeant Farrell
Made- Ine
Sho
Dec
Maury
Pab
Dee
Kiddles
la Cane
Walter Carroll
Doc
One Hundred and Seventh Regiment
Doeter Carroll
Trench
Madeine
Carrolls
Maury Carroll
Tom
Kaya
Ginner
John Farrell
Maudeline
Scott Wanton
U. S
Alicia
Jack Farrell
Scott Bkanton
Soap in Pompeii Era Revealed in Excavation Remains
Archaeologists uncovered a soap boller's shop among Pompeii ruins buried by A D 70 volcanic ash. The soap remained potent after eighteen centuries, reflecting high prices that spurred substitutes. Pliny notes soap and lathers from plant-based mixtures, while Gauls reportedly made soap two thousand years ago from beech ashes and goat fat.
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Htstory
Nut Cracker Technique Using Leverage and Finger Strike
A historical note explains opening nuts via leverage and finger pressure. It advises placing the joint perpendicular, striking with the first finger to crack nuts quickly, and turning the nut’s point toward the chest to ensure a clean break. The method emphasizes accuracy over brute force and mentions using a stone or wooden block as a counter surface.
Diet for a Man in Hard Work in a Day
The guideline lists daily food needs for a working man including 12 ounces spread across meat poultry cheese dried vegetables fish or eyes, with milk counted as one ounce of others, four pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables for soldiers, three quarters of a cup fat, one and a quarter pounds bread or cereal, and two ounces sugar or a third of a cup of syrup.
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Oater
Judge Questions Jury Of Ladies In Deliberations
A Soulsville Courier-Journal item quotes a judge defending or criticizing a jury of women, noting belief that women may not want men to decide their case. The exchange highlights tensions over gender and jury deliberations in a local legal scene.
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Soulsvite Courier-Journal
Not Always Says A Father On His Daughter’s Suitor
A terse exchange quotes a father and his daughter regarding a young man calling on the daughter Sarah. The dialogue hints at caution and fearlessness in the suitor’s approach, reflecting social tensions about propriety and parental control in courting.
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Sarah
Bible's Influence Beyond Verse Says Yale Professor
Detroit News quotes Prof. William Laon Phelps of Yale praising the Bible as a serious book with keen poetry and enduring wisdom. He argues modern fiction cannot match biblical narratives and parables noting Job and Proverbs as timeless, and Bunyan’s work stems from Bible saturation.
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William Laon Phelps
Yale University
Phelps
Job
Gibbon
Roxe
Kipling
de Maupassant
O. Henry
Bunyan
Linco
Neat
Detroit News
Welcome for Twins Delights Bayswater Constable
A Bayswater special constable on leave from his beat at Murbie Arch learns that one of twins born to a local family brings sugar shortages into relief. Captain Norman Thwaites of British Intelligence comments on wartime rationing and longing for sugar and tobacco. The story blends light humor with rationing realities.
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Norman Thwaites
British Intelligence Department
Bayswater
Murbie Arch
Water Brooks and the Perennial Pool of Beauty
Robert M. Gay reflects in Atlantic Monthly on a pool by the brook where a dragonfly lit on a sunlit pad. He contrasts mortal life with enduring beauty, noting how fleeting bright forms renews the spirit and offers comfort amid sorrow and turmoil.
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Robert M. Gay
Atlantic Monthly
Origin Of Turks Traced To Noah's Grandson
Osman historians claim the original Turk descended from Noah’s line. Eight aboard the ark then nine after Japhet’s eldest son Turk was born during the flood. Turk’s line produced twins Tartar Khan and Mogul Khan, ancestors of Turks and Mongols, shaping early wars and later reconciliations as family quarrels. The ethnological name appears only as Christian history advances.
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Noah
Mount Arrot
Japhet
Alladje Khan
Tartar-Khan
Mogul-Khan
Tartar
Old Tins to Value $900000 A Midlands Conference
Birmingham hosted a national war salvage council meeting with municipal and local authorities to discuss waste utilization. Lord Mayor noted 600 tons of old tins collected annually by the refuse department, tin sold at 1500 dollars per ton, and 35000 dollars from recovered waste paper. Poultry feed and pig food were produced from corpora slaughterhouse material, condemned fish and meat turned into valuable manures, fat used for soup making.
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Midlands
Birmingham
National War Salvage Council
Corporation
Clemenceau the Teer of France A turbulent political life
M Clemenceau France's premier known as the Teer endured prison as a youth for cries of Vive la Republique and decades later remains defiant. He is a famed horn fighter who fought duels, toppled cabinets, and enjoys immense popularity in France.
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M. Clemenceau
France
Museum Receives Aviator's Talisman Penny
An English penny carried as a talisman by a British aviator was donated by Pat O'Trien to the Washington Memorial Chapel history museum in Valley-Verge. The gift was presented during a visit by Major Dugmore and Captain Powell, hosted by Culonck John S. Mackie.
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Pat O'Trien
Leutenant
W. Herbert Burk
Hilstorical Museum
Washington Memorial Chapel
Valley — Verge
O'Brien
Dugmore
Captain Powell
Culonck
John S. Mackie
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